Ecclesiastes 5:11
“When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes?”
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Ecclesiastes 5:11 Context
9¶ Moreouer the profit of the earth is for all: the king himselfe is serued by the field. 10Hee that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer; nor he that loueth abundance, with increase: this is also vanitie. 11When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes? 12The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe. 13There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.
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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?
- King James Version
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding `of them' with his eyes?
- American Standard Version (1901)
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
- Basic English Bible
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
- Darby Bible
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
- Webster's Bible
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
- World English Bible
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
- Youngs Literal Bible
(5:10) When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible